In fact, several million foreigners from every part of Nazi-controlled Europe were working in Germany – the great majority against their will. Women from the East were put to work in armaments factories while Hungarians and Rumanians serviced hotels and restaurants. The Italians were generally employed clearing debris.1 There were also millions of slave workers, many from Poland and Russia, forced to work under appalling conditions. For the native Aryans, this massive number of hostile aliens living so intimately among them was a source of ever-deepening anxiety.
